Russell V. Lenth, JSM 2008 Program Chair
S
erving as program of the meeting and keeping me straight about
chair was a truly won- important matters. These are dedicated peo-
derful experience. It ple who do exemplary work, and I cannot
renewed my appreciation thank them enough.
for how incredibly broad We had about 5,600 attendees (second
our field is and the large number of amaz- only to Seattle in 2006) and 450 technical
ingly talented people who share this profes- sessions, of which I could only witness a tiny
sion. An elite subset of this community is fraction. For me, the highlights included
made up of the members of the JSM 2008 the introductory overview session on miss-
Program Committee, a collection of 30-plus ing and coarse data given by Rod Little and
individuals who did an amazing amount of Dan Heitjan, the sample-size session by
work and who, it seems to me, must surely Ralph O’Brien and Keith Muller, the elec-
comprise the best JSM Program Committee tions and polling sessions organized by Mary
ever. Then, there is the ASA Meetings Batcher and David Marker, the memorial
Department—Elaine Powell, Kathleen Wert, session for Randy Sitter, and a great talk by
Donna Arrington, and Kristen Campbell— Stu Hunter on the history of Technometrics.
who put in many long hours handling details I was inspired by Donald Berwick’s lecture
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